Who Changes?: Institutionalizing participation in development

Author:   James Blackburn (Institute of Development Studies (IDS)) ,  Jeremy Holland
Publisher:   Practical Action Publishing
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Pages:   216
Publication Date:   15 December 1998
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Author:   James Blackburn (Institute of Development Studies (IDS)) ,  Jeremy Holland
Publisher:   Practical Action Publishing
Imprint:   Practical Action Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.360kg
ISBN:  

9781853394201


ISBN 10:   1853394203
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   15 December 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
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List of figures, tables and boxes Abbreviations Acknowledgements Foreword ROBERT CHAMBERS 1. General introduction Part 1: The scaling-up of participatory approaches: opportunities and dangers 2. Introduction to Part 1 3. Internalizing and diffusing the PRA approach: the case of Ethiopia DEREJE WORDOFA Learning and internalizing Diffusing the methodology and influencing others New ways forward? 4. Scaling-up PRA: lessons from Vietnam BARDOLF PAUL Background to the Forestry Cooperation Programme A systems approach to institutionalization 5. The rush to scale: lessons being learnt in Indonesia NILANJANA MUKHERJEE Country-wide participatory planning: how it happened What we can learn from the experience 6. Scaling-down as the key to scaling-up? The role of participatory municipal planning in Bolivia's Law of Popular Participation JAMES BLACKBURN and COSTANZA de TOMA Scaling-down, Bolivian style New roles for local institutions: the key to making the LPP work State-sanctioned participatory planning: a contradiction in terms? NGO-State relations and the LPP A realignment of political forces Participatory social assessment in an economy in transition: strengthening capacity and influencing policy in Estonia JOHN THOMPSON The context The challenge The participatory social assessment (PSA) Findings of Phase I Learning from the past, building for the future 8. Scaling-up of participatory approaches through institutionalization in Government Services: the case of agricultural extension in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe JURGEN HAGMANN, EDWARD CHUMA and KUDAKWASHE MURWIRA Concept and approach for participatory innovation development and extension Strategy for institutionalizing the participatory approach Lessons learnt from experience Conclusions and recommendations 9. Scaling-up or scaling-down? The experience of institutionalizing PRA in the slum-improvement projects in India KAMAL KAR and SUE PHILLIPS Background Problems of scaling-up Efforts to scale down and create small examples of sustained community action Lessons learnt and conclusions Part 2: Organizational change: the key to institutionalizing participation? 10. Introduction to Part 2 1 1. The participatory watershed development implementation process: some practical tips drawn from OUTREACH in South India JAMES MASCARENHAS Stage 1: preparation time and the creation of self-help groups Stage 2: participatory planning processes and procedures Stage 3: the implementation plan Stage 4: withdrawal from the micro-watershed Conclusion 12. Introducing participatory learning approaches in the Self-help Support Programme, Sri Lanka MALLIKA SAMARANAYAKE National Development Foundation (NDF), partner of Self-SP Institutional changes resulting from the wholesale adoption of participatory methodologies 1990-94 Key factors emerging from the programme's reorientation Constraints generally faced by NGOs when attempting to institutionalize participatory approaches 13. Participatory management or community-managed programmes? Reflections from experience in Somaliland SAM JOSEPH New roles for development managers Rethinking project management 14. Participatory environmental management: contradiction of process, project and bureaucracy in the Himalayan Foothills ANDREW SHEPHERD Recent paradigm shifts Participation and Indian bureaucracy The question of targets in participatory projects How to merge project activities with people's priorities Lessons for paradigm shifters 15. Taking on the challenge of participatory development at GTZ: searching for innovation and reflecting on the experience gained HEINRICH EYLERS and REINER FORSTER Background to GTZ's experience Some lessons from GTZ-supported projects Reorientations and challenges for GTZ as an organization 16. Participatory Approaches in Government Bureaucracies: Facilitating Institutional Change JOHN THOMPSON Recognizing the need for institutional change Training for transformation? The institutional learning and training cycle Charting the course from participatory rhetoric to participatory reality Part 3: Where do we go from here? 17. Introduction to Part 3 18. Current challenges facing participatory rural appraisal ROBERT LEURS Challenges facing PRA at the individual level Challenges facing PRA at the colllrnunity level Challenges facing PRA at the organizational level 128 Challenges facing PRA at the projectlprogramme level 129 Challenges facing PRA at the policy level 131 Challenges facing PRA at the donor level 132 Conclusions 133 19. Reflections and recommendations on scaling-up and organizational change IDS WORKSHOP 135 Enabling conditions for scaling-up 135 Dangers of rapid scaling up for PRA practice 137 Recommendations for quality PRA training and field practice 138 Recommended actions for communities and local groups, NGOs and donors 142 Recommended actions for those involved in shifting organizations to more people-centred and participatory approaches 1 44 20. Towards a learning organization - making development agencies more participatory from the inside IDS WORKSHOP 145 Understanding the issue 145 Procedures 147 Systems and Structures 148 21. The Scaling-up and Institutionalization of PRA: lessons and challenges JOHN GAVENTA 153 Micro-macro linkages 153 The dimensions of scaling-up 154 Scaling-out: increasing the types of quality of participation 156 Scaling-up: increasing the quantity of participation 159 Institutional change 161 Summary and questions for future research 163 22. Conclusion JAMES BLACKBURN 167 References 179

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Jeremy Holland is Lecturer at the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Wales Swansea and Visiting Lecturer at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex

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